CVE-2008-3908 Information

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Princeton WordNet (wn) 3.0 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument on the command line; a long (2) WNSEARCHDIR (3) WNHOME or (4) WNDBVERSION environment variable; or (5) a user-supplied dictionary (aka data file). NOTE: since WordNet itself does not run with special privileges this issue only crosses privilege boundaries when WordNet is invoked as a third party component.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/32184 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4217 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200810-01.xml http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-014.html http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495883/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30958 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44848 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44849 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44850 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44851